Primary traditions worth returning to: Homer, Iliad XVIII; Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica; Ovid, Metamorphoses X; the received Liezi; Jewish Golem traditions.

Argo: speaking Dodonian timber embedded in Athena's ship.

Talos: bronze guardian of Crete.

Pygmalion: desired artificial human brought to life.

Golem: artificial human animated through knowledge, letters or sacred language in evolving Jewish traditions.